Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Only fools don't contradict themselves